print the invoice? Instead of a professional-looking document, you get all the website navigation down the side, leaving not enough room for the figures that indicate how much you paid. If you’re lucky, they come out on a second sheet. Of course, not every designer is negligent. Some go to the trouble of creating a separate print version of the page. Neither situation is necessary. All that’s needed is a print style sheet. In this chapter, I’ll show you how to create styles for printing and to

you can’t do with the individual properties. I find that the code completion features in most HTML and CSS editors make it easier to use the more explicit declarations than trying to remember the shorthand syntax. But if you prefer the more succinct way of defining your fonts, the shorthand syntax is supported by all browsers. Changing the Color of Text The color of text is controlled by the color property. You can use any of the color formats described in Chapter 3. The value is

background image is repeated, it tiles in both directions along the vertical and/or horizontal axis. The background-position and background-origin properties determine only its starting point. They have no control over the background painting area. To control the extent of the background, you need to use the background-clip property, which affects both background colors and images. The styles in background-clip.html set the background painting area in each